Polio: Just a Plane Ride Away
Polio infection in the US is only an airplane ride away. Folks who know anything about the transmission of this disease have been saying this for years. Well, now it’s happened! An unvaccinated man who lives in a New York community with extremely low vaccination rates traveled to Hungary and Poland recently and now has …
Happy Birthday Dr. Jonas Salk – World Polio Day
Polio is a fatal infectious disease, with no cure but with the help of an effective vaccine, it can e prevented. To raise awareness for vaccination and eradication of polio, World Polio Day was established. In 1955, Jonas Salk, the American researcher, led the first team to develop a vaccine against poliomyelitis. To commemorate his …
Gastonia Connection
The Rotary Club of Gastonia was formed January 1, 1920. Among the distinguished charter members of the club was an ambitious man by the name of Robert B. Babbington. RB was touched after reading about a crippled child that could not be accepted into a North Carolina orphanage. That was back in 1909. As a result of …
Elvis Presley Gets His Polio Shot
In 1954, the New York City Department of Health launched a massive publicity campaign to promote vaccination against polio. Columnist and media bigwig Walter Winchell threw cold water on the effort, saying the vaccine, developed from an inactivated virus by Jonas Salk, “may be a killer.” This invited a correction from Salk himself. The following …
Gus’s Dad – Polio Survivor
When I was young, I remember Dad had Polio. I knew it took the muscles in his legs, but I wasn’t sure exactly what that meant because Dad did everything Dad’s do. He taught me to play sports, he took me hunting, he attended all the regular Father-Son activities that all Fathers did. He …
How Polio Eradication Efforts Help in Covid-19
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is a public-private partnership led by national governments with six core partners – the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Its goal is to …
A Spoonful of Sugar
A familiar song from everyone’s childhood has a polio-related backstory. Jeffrey Sherman, son and nephew of Robert and Richard Sherman (songwriting duo responsible for the music of classics like “Mary Poppins,” shared how the song “A Spoonful of Sugar” came about. Sherman describes the inspiration behind the lyrics, “A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine …
Polio
Poliomyelitis, or polio, is a paralyzing and potentially fatal disease that still threatens children in some parts of the world. Poliovirus invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in hours. It can strike people of any age but mainly affects children under five. Polio can be prevented by vaccines, but it is not …
PolioPlus
For more than 30 years, Rotary and our partners have driventhe effort to eradicate polio worldwide.Our PolioPlus program was the first initiative to tackle global polio eradication by vaccinating children on a massive scale. As a core partner in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, Rotary focuses on advocacy, fundraising, volunteer recruitment, and awareness-building.
Polio Today
When Rotary and its partners formed the GPEI in 1988, there were 350,000 cases of polio in 125 countries every year. Today, we have reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent, and just two countries continue to report cases of wild poliovirus: Afghanistan and Pakistan. Because of the efforts of Rotary and its partners, nearly 19 …
Save the childern role in fight
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, …
